US tech giant Microsoft has revealed a move to separate some of its activities globally in a bid to avoid a possible antitrust fine in the European Union.
According to a statement issued by the company, it will separate the global sales between the chat and video program Teams and the Office package, after six months of separating them in Europe.
The European Commission is conducting an investigation into Microsoft's connection between Office and Teams since a complaint it received in 2020 from the competing application Slack, owned by Salesforce, which also provides messaging services related to workplaces. The Teams program, which was added for free to the Office 365 system in 2017, replaced the Skype application in communicating within workspaces, and its popularity increased during the pandemic.
Source (Al-Arab Newspaper of London, Edited)
